Kori Doty, who doesn’t identify as either male or female and prefers to use the pronoun they, wants to keep baby Searyl Atli’s gender off all official records, according to the CBC.
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Doty said that they are ‘raising Searyl in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are’.
‘I’m recognizing them as a baby and trying to give them all the love and support to be the most whole person that they can be outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box,’ Doty told the news site.
But the fight isn’t over.
Doty, who is a non-binary trans parent, has been trying to get British Columbia to issue Searyl a birth certificate without a gender marker since the child was born last November.
But the province has so far refused, despite sending Doty the child’s health card with a ‘U’ for gender on it last month.
The ‘U’ is presumed to mean ‘undertermined’ or ‘unassigned’, according to CBC.
According to Doty’s lawyer, the province’s birth certificates only accommodate a male or female gender designation at the moment.
However, there are some provinces like Ontario that are reviewing their policies to include a third, non-binary gender option on official documents.
But the concern with the third option is that those who use it could be singled out. They could become targets of…